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A New Approach to Construct Core Inflation

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  • Sartaj Rasool Rather

    (Madras School of Economics)

  • S. Raja Sethu Durai

    (Department of Economics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry)

  • M. Ramachandran

    (Department of Economics, Pondicherry University, Puducherry)

Abstract

We propose a new methodology to construct core inflation which is, unlike other conventional methods, not based on ad hoc elimination/trimming of prices. The underlying inflation derived from our method is found to be a powerful leading indicator of headline inflation while other conventional measures do not seem to reflect such fundamental property of core inflation.

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  • Sartaj Rasool Rather & S. Raja Sethu Durai & M. Ramachandran, 2014. "A New Approach to Construct Core Inflation," Working Papers 2014-091, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
    • Handle: RePEc:mad:wpaper:2014-091
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    Keywords

    Core inflation; Skewness; Leading indicator;
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    JEL classification:

    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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